I have a directory tree that I would like to back up to optical disks. Unfortunately, it exceeds the size of any one disk (it's about 60GB). I am looking for a script that would split this tree into ...

I'm looking at this script mysql backup script and I don't understand what is the reason for using both backticks and double quotes around command names?
379 WHICH="`which which`"
380 AWK="`${WHICH} ...

I need to create an empty file using a shell script. The filename will be determined by examining all the files in a directory matching a pattern, say TEST.*, and appending _END to it so that the new ...

I want to move a file from one folder to another folder.
When the file's format is with space in between (file _name.dat) and when I am using the command mv file _name.dat /tmp then the file is not ...